Black Hole

For billions of years, the universe has hidden its strangest secrets in faint, ancient light. Now, the James Webb Space Telescope may have caught one of them: an object from the universe’s infancy that looks like a giant red star, shines with the power of something vastly more luminous than…

When Soundgarden Wrote “Black Hole Sun,” they may have inadvertently been onto something. In a new paper in Nature, scientists have chronicled a “black hole star” that’s the size of our solar system and glows bright red in the depth of space. The findings are based on observations from the…

A view of the Milky Way galaxy. (Image credit: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, F. Peißker, J. Lu, F. Yusef-Zadeh, N. B. Sabha, C. Chan) Quick facts What it is: The region around the star IRS 3 Where it is: 26,000 light-years from Earth When it was shared: Aug. 11, 2026…

Using data from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers found that IRS 3 — a bloated giant star orbiting just 0.55 light-years to Sagittarius A*, the Milky Way’s central black hole — is still forging silicate dust and harboring water molecules despite the Galaxy’s most extreme radiation environment. Mid-infrared…

Astronomers from New Mexico State University, Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center and CUNY Borough of Manhattan Community College propose that the dust-rich tori surrounding active galactic nuclei (AGN) — the energetic cores of galaxies powered by feeding supermassive black holes — behave much like the protoplanetary disks that spawn planets around…

Initially, scientists thought the object could be an unusually large star, but researchers found that it produces around 100 billion times more energy than a normal star can generate. By CNBCTV18.com  August 14, 2026, 12:45:02 AM IST (Published) Astronomers may have discovered a completely new type of space object that…

Astronomers have discovered a close pair of actively feeding supermassive black holes, seen when the universe was just 1.3 billion years old. Collectively known as LID-1166, the two monsters are separated by only about 4,900 light-years (1.5 kiloparsecs) inside a merging galaxy, offering the first clear view of a phase…

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have discovered a cosmic oddity: an extremely bright red dot shining in the early universe with 100 billion times more energy than any star could physically produce. The object, seen just a few hundred million years after the Big Bang, appears to…

Roughly 660 million years after the Big Bang, a strange bright red spot has been hiding in plain sight in one of the deepest fields ever imaged by the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope. Astronomers at MIT now believe it may be the first confirmed example of an entirely new…

Recently, astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to peer deep into the history of the universe noticed something strange—a very bright, very red dot. Now, the team behind its discovery has published their analysis of the cosmic oddity in Nature, and it’s unlike anything ever seen before. According…